Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-09-23
FRIDAYS.
ALFALFA 5000
A GREAT METEOR.
A REMARKABLE EXHIBITION IN TIKI
HEAVENS.

A REMARKABLE EXHIBITION IN THE
HEAVENS.
The dispatches have reported that a
huge aeroite fell Thursday evening of
last week about 8 o'clock near the station
of the New Brunswick railroad at
McAdam Junction in New Brunswick,
six miles beyond Vanceboro and the
Maine State line. One account says: at
fell with terrific force, plunging into the
earth distance of 10 feet and shaking
the earth so that the crOckery ratified in
houses near by. 1t was so hot Friday
that the country people who fiocked
around to see the celestial visitor could
not approach within many feet of it, The
light of this new accession to the earth's
crust was intensely brilliant, and was
visible for a radius ofhundreds of miles"
A dispatch from Halifax, N. S., says: An
enormous meteor of remarkable brilliancy
was seen Thursday evening about 8
O'Clock and at various towns throughout
the province. The sky was cloudless,
and when it fell the whole city was
Illuminated. One report says it was as
big as an elephant and had luminous
tall A whirring sound accompanied its
fall. and few moments after there was
slight explosion. Another account
speaks of it as large falling star, which
burst into small stars of exceeding bril-
liancy just before it struck the earth.
There is some disposition to discredit
this meteorite, but there can be no doubt
that such one was visible at the time
named. Some of the passengers on the
steamer Cephalonia, which reached Bos-
ton Friday, were fortunate enough to
witness this most remarkable and impress
sive exhibition. Those who happened to
be gazing into the sky Thursday evening
saw what seemed to be two shooting stars
of unusual size come within the vision
well up toward the zenith. Then one of
the two seemed to disappear, and the
other steadily grew in magnitude and
brilliancy as it fell. From sharp steel
blue the falling mass grew into the APP
pearance of lightning, then to the yellow
light of flame and then deepened into a
red glow. Its apparent size grew from
that of distant star to the bigness of the
moon; then larger and redder the glow
ing mass, that appeared twice the diam
eter of the moon, seemed to carry trail
of light like the trail of a comet. The
whole horizon was illuminated by the
light that was more intense than light
ming and of deeper tone. Just as the
flaming mass disappeared, it seemed as il
it carried ragged circular line of flame
and then, after what had seemed a
long flight, the celestial visitor disap-
peared.
The Boston Transcript enlarges on the
general subject as follows: Astronomers
assert that our earth is continually sub
jected to bombardment of meteors, anG
that, were it not for the great air-cushior
with which we are surrounded, no mans
life would be safe from the constantly
flying missiles, which, coming from un
known space, are ignited by friction il
passing through the air, and in the very
large majority of cases fall to earth al
harmless meteoric dust. That there is
constant shower of this dust is amply
proved. 1t is found on the top of tn,
highest mountains, and it is recognized
by scientific dredging as existing on thu
lowest depths of the ocean bed. Scientist
estimate that from this source alone Their,